I likes me some heavied-up cover versions, and that’s a fact. Yessir! Particularly of good old popular 80s tunes.
And sure, we all know the popular ones - Marilyn Manson’s version of Tainted Love and HIM’s version of Wicked Game are two obvious ones that spring to mind - but I’m also all about finding the obscurer ones that crop up on tribute albums or film soundtracks.
Thing is, they’re quite tricky to track down, so I tend to just womble across them organically as and when. Recent finds have included Disturbed’s Land of Confusion and Nonpoint’s In The Air Tonight, the latter of which is allegedly on the Miami Vice film soundtrack.
I just made a quick playlist of the ones I can find in my iTunes library, although I know there’s more kicking around in there (by the way, I’m not counting anything by Me First & The Gimme Gimmes, even though they do usually rock). Here’s what I turned up in five minutes scrabbling:
- Disturbed - Land of Confusion (Genesis)
- Fear Factory - Cars (Gary Numan)
- Wicked Game - HIM (Chris Isaak)
- Message In A Bottle - Machine Head (The Police)
- Golden Years - Marilyn Manson (David Bowie)
- Another Brick In The Wall - Marilyn Manson (Pink Floyd)
- Sweet Dreams - Marilyn Manson (Eurhythmics)
- Tainted Love - Marilyn Manson (Soft Cell)
- In The Air Tonight - Nonpoint (Phil Collins)
- I Get Around - Pennywise (Beach Boys)
- All Day and All of the Night - Skew Siskin (The Kinks)
- My Generation - Skew Siskin (The Who)
But I wants more! So if you know of any similar opuses (opii?) in that vein, please leave a comment! I should be able to track down the song myself, so don’t send files just yet. 
Cheese!
–c.
[EDIT] Just found a few more!
- Electric Boys - Black Betty (Ram Jam / Leadbelly)
- Enuff Z’Nuff - Yankee Rose (David Lee Roth)
- Enuff Z’Nuff - She Sells Sanctuary (The Cult)
- Foo Fighters - Baker Street (Gerry Rafferty)
- Foo Fighters - Darling Nikki (Prince)
- Foo Fighters & Brian May - Have A Cigar (Pink Floyd)
- Goldfinger - 99 Red Balloons (Nena)
- Gun - Word Up (Cameo)
- Guns N Roses - Live and Let Die (Wings)
- Living Colour - Crosstown Traffic (Jimi Hendrix)
- Little Angels - So Tired (The Kinks)
- Soundgarden - Come Together (The Beatles)
- Lostprophets - View to a Kill (Duran Duran)
…and rest. I know I have more, but I can’t find them right now.
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… all of RATM:Renegades?
Korn also did a cover of “Another Brick In The Wall” (all 3 parts), which is pretty good if you like that sort of thing. I shall probably think of more later, I like this game!
Tobaacco Road- DLR ( Easybeats?)
Smooth Criminal- Alien Ant farm ( M.Jackson)
I can’t Explin- The Scorps (The Who)
Back in Black-Living Colour (Ac/Dc)
Overdose-Exodus (Ac/Dc)
Low Rider-Exodus ( ?)
I wanna hold yor hand-Volbeat (Beatles)
Volbeat are awesome!
More soon.
D.
Oh yes.
Gimmee Gimmee-YJM( ABBA)
Gimmee Some Lovin’-Thunder( Spencer Davies)
This had me thinking all last night..I need to get out more LOL.
Boys of summer-The Ataris(Don Henley)
Keep me hanging on-The Rods(Supremes)
Whiskey in the jar-Metallica(Lizzy)
Fath No More did some great covers,Commodores and BeeGee’s songs.Also WASP did “Paint it Black”.
Ok i’m spent!
D.
I think I’ve got around 400 (known) covers in iTunes, including:
California Girls - DLR (Beach Boys)
Wild Thing - Jeff Beck (The Troggs)
The Man Who Sold The World - Nirvana (and Lulu!) (Bowie)
My Way - Sex Pistols (Sinatra)
White Wedding (The Murderdolls) (Billy Idol)
Bodies - Velvet Revolver (Sex Pistols)
Manic Depression - Seal feat Jeff Beck (JH)
Plus two albums of the Cybernauts (Def Leppard plus Spiders from Mars) and one Hayseed Dixie album…
Surely the best cover of all time:
Wuthering Heights - China Drum
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=OBviQXfuu3c
by the way.
The opposite of the heavied-up cover is this abomination:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEswnMQRsYU
I’m so, so very, very sorry. I blame muttley for giving it the oxygen of publicity here:
http://deflatermouse.vox.com/library/post/crimes-against-humanity.html
Don’t even look at the second clip on there with that comeback-special-looking stank-ass-melonfarmer Twain.
*shudder*
Better than the original. IMHO:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xp0_vLMrMy8
Very cool and Donny Osmond has belting voice on this I kid ye’ not.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Kt5uHxqdIs
All star solo’s from Nuno,Zakk et al’
Eleanor Rigby, covered by Godhead
anything covered by Beatallica
And in a slightly different vein, I’m rather fond of “Pickin on Pink Floyd” (an album of bluegrass covers) and “Dub Side of the Moon” (reggae version of Dark Side of the Moon).
Forget Purple Haze by Winger at your peril, beryl…
How about Gamma Ray covering the Pet Shop Boys ‘It’s A Sin’? http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=1faii8c-hyg
Ahoy ye scurvey dog!
Did “holy diver” by killswitch engage (nee DIO) get a mention?
I came across this whilst idly surfing satellite channels.. and it stood ou to me as all rather big and clever. Listening to the two tracks back to back it’s amazing how simplistic the DIO recording is and how much things have moved on in twentysomething years. An object lesson in advances in recording techniques and a great treatment of a hairy old classic.
Listen to it.
Fod.
(p.s. Love ya man)
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